The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-08-18
THE CREATION OF MAN.
BY JOHN II, HEWITT,

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When there was naught but spaco-before al
/ time
| When chaos slept and darkness reigned sub.
I lime;
1 When no material thing-not cen the air,
| Found habitation in the silence there;
No ripple of an angels breath-no sound
Nothing that lived-all still and dark around
Gods spirit moved throughout the vastly space,
Mysterious radience flashing from his face
When forth His fiat went;-"Iet there be
lightu
And light there was the spirit of the night.
by God decree, fled oel his ebon track,
Bearing the neW-made world upon his back.
Then fashion'd He the Heavens and the earth,
TO living things He gave primeval birth.
He made the yapors-freed the bubbling spring
The spring the brook-the brooks to bring
Their liquid tribute to the rivers wide,
The rivers to the oceans mighty tide.
The air he made-flled it with feathered things
That fashion music, while they piled theil
wings.
He painted with pencil dipped in light
The rainbow on the cloud-the flow'rets bright
lie made paradise where angel choiIs
Might sing His praise and sweep their golden
Tyres,
But where's the being with u soul-to tell
The beauties of this orb-the yielding Earth
To name the Architect that gave it birth q
The God, in T1iune grand, then councilled, and
1t was resolved thai man should rule the land,
And sea and all that Earth brought forth,
From the w&rm South up to the frozen North.
"Let us make man. said He, ''Dut how?
spirit to whose beauty all must bow?
Or of the earth made animate with soul,
With power to reason, multiply, control"
In the blue depths the evening star arose
Bright as dew-drop when the morning glows.
And out she spake: mo brighter orb see,
Lord OF the Universe! make him like me-.
Then God said. NO. and fair Selene rose
In the dim East, like ono from sweetrepose;
Her robes Of silverJ white from the dark sea;
"Father of all" said she, snake him like me-"
Then through the depths came answering low,
The fiat of The holy Triune, mo.
Aurora them in all her gay attire,
Her crimson scarf and drapery of fire,
With rosy fingers ope'd the orient gate,
And heralded the day. With pride elate
She smiled upon the wavelets of the sea,
And, pleading, spalze to God, make him like
me-"
From boundless space came thund ring down
below
Jehovahs answer to the pleader, ssNo!'
Then followed Helois, mighty king of day,
Arrayed in robes imperial-half gay
Half solemn-wearing look of wrath
And scat ring life and death along his path;
His chariot wheels, with spokes of pent-up fire,
And lambent-1ashes darting from each tire,
Rolled through the armament, DER blasted lea,
And shouted "Father! model him like me-
Then spake Jehovah through the dazzling glow
That poured from out the blazing daygod-
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Next an archangel. shining in pure light
Ethereal and heavenly-as bright
AS Puritys own diadem, swift flew
Midst stars unknown to us, through regions
blue.
Up to the court VIII ere only angels trod.
And knelt to Him, the everlasting God,
make him like me, o Sire! ~ he pleaded low;
Jehovah deigned to smiIe-but answered. mo-"
There was no other archetype to seek;
God was the only Three-in-One to speak;
Let us make man-but how ?" the Triune said;
In our own image be he forthwith madei"
Then God made man, and he was king of Ear tn
Temp taton's tool-but God-lilze from his BIZ tn.
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